Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Title Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity PDF eBook
Author James Evans
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 208
Release 2016-11-11
Genre Art
ISBN 0691174407

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.

A Portable Cosmos

A Portable Cosmos
Title A Portable Cosmos PDF eBook
Author Alexander Jones
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 313
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 019973934X

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The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought.

Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Title Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity PDF eBook
Author S. Cuomo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 159
Release 2007-08-02
Genre History
ISBN 0521810736

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This book uses five case-studies to set ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
Title The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science PDF eBook
Author Liba Taub
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 359
Release 2020-01-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107092485

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Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

Hellenistic Astronomy

Hellenistic Astronomy
Title Hellenistic Astronomy PDF eBook
Author Alan C. Bowen
Publisher BRILL
Pages 783
Release 2020-02-17
Genre History
ISBN 9004400567

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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.

The Routledge Companion to Strabo

The Routledge Companion to Strabo
Title The Routledge Companion to Strabo PDF eBook
Author Daniela Dueck
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 423
Release 2017-03-16
Genre History
ISBN 1317445864

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The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.

Roman Portable Sundials

Roman Portable Sundials
Title Roman Portable Sundials PDF eBook
Author Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 261
Release 2017
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 0190273488

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Talbert investigates miniature sundials which can be adjusted for the owner's whereabouts. They incorporate a list of locations and latitudes for ready reference, data that offers insight into Romans' worldviews. To some perhaps, these sundials were primarily symbols of scientific awareness as well as imperial mastery of time and space.